Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor "patients" free. In 40 years of eccentric hocus-pocus he has never broken two rules: i) The groups he pencils must always be of assorted sexes, and always seminude; 2) He will pencil no one privately, though hundreds of prominent people, unwilling to endure the public ordeal, have sent him blank checks for a private consultation. He always refuses, returning the checks blank. Recently the Austrian Government, con- vinced after prolonged investigation that the Pencil Man is no cheat, rebated him two-thirds of certain taxes which he had paid in ignorance of a clause in the law permitting...
...Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22) and expelled Communist agents from Manchuria, Chinese and Russian soldiers have scowled at each other across Manchuria's barren border, fired occasional shots, made desultory raids. Last week tension snapped. Soviet strategists, choosing a moment when civil war wracked half of China, sent four modern divisions, complete with tanks. over the line. Two divisions moved west from Vladivostok, two east from Chita to clamp Manchuria in a Soviet vise...
...Manhattan. The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need of sleep. Meanwhile his wife experiments with a wealthy fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned himself with such austere subjects as the psychological borderland between religion and sex (Bride of the Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry...
...drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic twelve times, who once flew from London to Paris to visit his veterinarian. Louis Ruhe, famed Manhattan animal importer, sent many a truckload of his wares including bears, warthogs, porcupines. When the Ruhe trucksters unloaded one slatted crate its inmate, a zebra, kicked, crashed its head against the slats, stared wildly, piteously about. The ever-watchful American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at once ordered the animal...
...reports of miraculous cures increased in number if not in clarity. One Louis Hanover begged more than $100 from the sympathetic crowd, flung down his crutches on the grave, cried out that he was cured, ran away. The policemen caught him, discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...